kde-pim dev needed, for a sponsored open source effort, to remove akonadi

[Paul Vixie]

hello. i've been using kmail for about a dozen years, due to its excellent 
integration with pgp. however, it has a lot of very old bugs on board, and not 
a lot of evidence that the people who know how to fix them, are motivated to 
do so. i'd like to provide that motivation.

what i want, specifically, is a version of kontact that does not use akonadi. 
i used for a time the kontact that's built by kolab systems, but ultimately i 
need something that works well inside suse tumbleweed, which isn't one of 
kolabsys' build platforms.

i can pay a reasonable fee for this. the result would be given to the KDE 
community under the same license that kde-pim has always had. if nobody but me 
adopts it and it falls behind on feature level, then i'll strongly consider 
sponsoring ongoing development to keep the non-akonadi version up-to-modern.

what i don't want, specifically, is to argue about whether akonadi was or is 
or could ever be a good idea, if only it had been or could be properly 
supported. i will ignore any responses on that topic.

i send this after yet again restarting akonadi server four times so far today, 
restarting kontact twice, rebooting three times, vacuuming, fsck'ing, and 
using tcpdump to find out what's not happening so that i can try to guess why.

if you wish to work with me on this project, please provide me some 
references, both work you've done in kde-pim in the past, and colleagues in 
the community who would vouch for your honesty, integrity, discipline, follow 
through, and technical skills.

thank you for reading this far.

-- 
Vixie

ps. if you've never run akonadi from a terminal window where you can see how 
the sausage gets made, i recommend several shots of vodka before you begin.

> Tokenizer Warning: 8Bit character ' -61 '
> Tokenizer Warning: 8Bit character ' -87 '
> Tokenizer Warning: 8Bit character ' -61 '
> Tokenizer Warning: 8Bit character ' -87 '
> Tokenizer Warning: 8Bit character ' -61 '
> Tokenizer Warning: 8Bit character ' -87 '
> org.kde.pim.imapresource: Called item() while state holds multiple items!
> 
>  void ContactSearchJob::setQuery(Criterion criterion, const QString &value,
>  Match match) "merike at fsi.io"> 
> void ContactSearchJob::setQuery(Criterion criterion, const QString &value,
> Match match) "merike at fsi.io"> 
>  AFTER ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
> org.kde.pim.kolabresource: Failed to create configuration folder:  "Create
> failed, server replied: A000368 NO Mailbox already exists "
> org.kde.pim.kolabresource: Failed to create configuration folder:  "Create
> failed, server replied: A000369 NO Mailbox already exists "
> org.kde.pim.kimap: Connection to server lost  2
> org.kde.pim.imapresource: Session login cancelled
> QIODevice::write (KTcpSocket): device not open
> org.kde.pim.kolabresource: Failed to create configuration folder:  "Create
> failed, server replied: A000067 NO Mailbox already exists "
> org.kde.pim.kolabresource: Failed to create configuration folder:  "Create
> failed, server replied: A000068 NO Mailbox already exists " qt.network.ssl:
> QSslSocket::startClientEncryption: cannot start handshake on non-plain
> connection org.kde.pim.kolabresource: Failed to create configuration
> folder:  "Create failed, server replied: A000448 NO Mailbox already exists
> " org.kde.pim.kolabresource: Failed to create configuration folder: 
> "Create failed, server replied: A000449 NO Mailbox already exists "